Broadband speeds under scrutiny

It's something that many have suspected. Broadband speeds that in reality are much slower than advertised.Some 3,000 readers took part in speed tests and 62%
found they routinely got less than half of the top speed advertised by
their provider.

It is the latest in a series of questions over the way net firms advertise broadband services.

Regulator Ofcom said it was aware of the issue and was "investigating".

The figures were gathered from more than 100,000 speed
tests that the 3,000 respondents carried out to build up a picture of
their average net-browsing speed on ADSL lines.

It would be interesting to see a similar test in the US. For some reason we would expect our results to be pretty similar.